The Low Countries. Jaargang 6 (1998-1999)
Arts & Society in Flanders and The Netherlands
A yearbook

320 pp. 23 x 17 x 2,5 cm. 950 gr. Geïllustreerd.
Staat: verkleuringen omslag; binnen perfect.


Inhoudsopgave

A Naturally Gifted Painter The Work of Anthony van Dyck

As Mysterious as Running Water The Work of Marijke van Warmerdam

Belgian Welfare Reform

Myth and Reality of the Polder Model

The Rembrandt of Dutch Architecture The Work of Hendrik Petrus Berlage

‘Dear old Bruges’ The English Colony in Bruges in the Nineteenth Century

‘A whole sweet countryside amuck with murder’ War Poetry and the Flemish Frontline

Six War Poems

From Hereditary Authority to Individual Charisma The Monarchy in Belgium

All Quiet on the Royal Front 150 Years of Continuous Monarchy in the Netherlands

The Hague, a Royal City

A Forgotten Classic The Work of Louis Couperus in English

The Binoculars by Louis Couperus

The Hague, a Divided City

‘Nature itself on the canvas’ The Painters of the Hague School

Nine City Poems

The American Adventure of Frederik van Eeden

Extract from Happy Humanity by Frederik van Eeden

Rebel with a Cause Father Damien on Molokai

Learned, Wise and Good Justus Lipsius: Portrait of a Humanist Scholar

The Pain Catcher Thierry de Cordier, Thinker, Artist and Humble Earthworm

The Jews in the Netherlands

A Traveller through Time The Work of Marcel Möring

Extract from In Babylon by Marcel Möring

The Courage of the Critical Intellect The Work of Stefan Hertmans

A Bigger Head by Stefan Hertmans

Poems by Stefan Hertmans

The Heart that Skips a Beat Charlotte Mutsaers' Poetic Prose

Extract from Rachel's Skirt by Charlotte Mutsaers

Dutch Intellectual Hospitality

Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold The Judicial System in Belgium

Elisabeth Eybers, a Monumental Poet

Five Poems by Elisabeth Eybers

Léon Spilliaert, a Troubled and Troubling Painter

A Mystic and Mathematical Revolutionary L.E.J. Brouwer's Role in Topology and Intuitionism

The Sculptor as Craftsman The Work of Rik Poot

Against the Status Quo Louis Paul Boon in a Wider Literary Context

Extract from Chapel Road by Louis Paul Boon

The Extraordinary Uses of the Ordinary The Poetry of Judith Herzberg

Six Poems by Judith Herzberg

Flemish Giants The Steep Climb of Juvenile Literature in Flanders

The Tradition of the Lonely Wandering Eye The Films of Johan van der Keuken

‘Simply a question of notes’ Jan van Vlijmen: From Director / Composer to Composer

Chronicle
Architecture
Puzzling Architecture The Spectacular Work of MVRDV

Cultural Policy
An International Treasure The Dutch and Flemish Library Collections at Harvard University

Film and Theatre
Blauwe Maandag's Great Shakespearean Adventure

The Sacrifice is Never Too Small Jan Decleir, Actor and Director

Animated and Kicking The Netherlands Institute for Animated Film

History
The Arctic Adventures of Olivier Brunel

The Peace of Münster

Talbot House in Pops

Victims and Survivors The Nazi Persecution of Dutch Jews

The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam

Tropical Tervuren The Royal Museum of Central Africa

The Little Man with the Big Heart Roger Vandersteene among the Cree

Language
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Dutch Grammar (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Literature
A Great Neo-Latin Scholar Jozef IJsewijn and his Life's Work

A Wry Sense of Mortality Selected Poems of Remco Campert

Outside the Lines

A Season of Dutch and Flemish Poetry

Low Leans the Sky The First Five Years of the Yearbook The Low Countries

Music
Beyond the Rock 'n Roll High School The First Pop Professor in the Netherlands

Very Abstract Music Karel Goeyvaerts and the Internationalisation of New Music in Flanders

Philosophy and Science
A Flemish Rationalist The Uncompromising Thinking of Etienne Vermeersch

Philosophy in Harmony with the Gods The Work of Samuel IJsseling

Einstein's Pipe The Autobiography of Abraham Pais

Mister Psychology The Work of Piet Vroon

Society
Test Lab Holland The Netherlands in Perspective

Visual Arts
Solving the Rembrandt Mystery

Lucky Luke, a Lonesome Cowboy for More than Half a Century

Whistler's Holland A Nineteenth-Century American's Vision

Art for the Advanced Art-Lover The Portraits of Jan Vercruysse

Beyond Elegance Siegfried de Buck's Jewellery Designs

Bibliography of Dutch-Language Publications translated into English (traced in 1997)

Contributors

Translators